An additional EUR 1 million of the European Parliament's funding have been allocated to the EUSBSR Seed Money Facility in order to support new preparatory projects. We welcome projects in all policy areas and horizontal actions of the EUSBSR Action Plan 2015. Details on this call are explained in the announcement note. The submission deadline for applications is 30 October 2015.

The process in short:

30 September 2015: recommended deadline for project application submission to Policy Area Coordinators/Horizontal Action Coordinators for strategic assessment and issuing of letter of support;

January 2016: decision on project approvals by the Seed Money Committee.

Beforehand, the Seed Money Facility offers face-to-face consultations and support to potential applicants and project idea owners during consultation days on 25-26 August 2015 in Riga (t.b.c.) and on 8 September 2015 in Berlin. If you have a project idea and you are interested in feedback and answers to your questions, please request a consultation by sending the filled in project idea form, in pdf format, to seed@eusbsr.eu by Friday, 14 August 2015 (for Riga) and 21 August 2015 (for Berlin).The announcement note can be found here.

EUSBSR seed money is EU funding to prepare projects that contribute to one of the policy areas or horizontal actions of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. For more information, please visit seed.eusbsr.eu.